Since Ukraine's formal political regime has changed substantially several times over the last
two decades, the country offers an ideal case to study the relationship between political …

War reporting has mostly been analyzed as a struggle between political and military control
over information and journalistic professionalism. An analysis of reporting in mainstream …

The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination of anti-
Ukrainian rhetoric that Russian political elite and state-controlled media have been …

This article discusses the lessons that can be drawn from post-Soviet experiences of
democratisation in hybrid regimes for debates on Central and Eastern Europe …

This article examines how online groups are formed and sustained during crisis periods,
especially when political polarization in society is at its highest level. We focus on the use of …

When people join in moments of mass protest, what role do different media sources play in
their mobilization? Do the same media sources align with positive views of mass …

As more than a billion people had done previously, on November 21, 2013, Ukrainian
journalist and activist Mustafa Nayem wrote a Facebook post; this post, however, would …

An in-depth look at Ukraine's attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world.
During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening …

This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on
“Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand …

I examine how social media and historical memory were used for the social construction of
security issues during the Euromaidan protests in January–February 2014 and the conflict in …